When We Ride

Diego Benevides is a hard worker. His single mother pushes him to stay focused on school, get into college and leave their crumbling neighborhood behind, and she has given him her car to help. His best friend, Lawson, needs rides because he is dealing. Diego tells himself it is fine as long as he is not carrying or selling, and that it is only weed. Then Lawson moves on to powder, pills and worse. Their friendship is put to the test, and both their lives come under threat. As the line between dealer and driver blurs, everything Diego has worked toward is at risk, and he faces a deadly reckoning over the choices he and his best friend have made. When We Ride is a novel in verse about loyalty and friendship and how drugs and violence strain them. It is the first novel in verse from Rex Ogle, an award-winning memoirist and poet.